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Delphine Gleize's award-winning debut feature is a wildly original, intertwining story that almost defies classification. Carnage traces the bizarre, often magical effects a 1,000-pound Andalusian bull has on a disparate group of characters. The tale begins in Spain as a young bullfighter is injured in the ring and the bull is killed. A little girl named Winnie gets one of the bones as a treat for her giant Great Dane; a struggling actress (Chiara Mastroianni) sells Winnie's parents the bone in a supermarket promotion; a philandering scientist (Jacques Gamblin) and his pregnant wife receive the eyes; a taxidermist gets the horns as a gift from his elderly mother; a Spanish woman (Angela Molina) dines on toro en rioja in a restaurant.
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Rating:  - Carnage - and more
Great entertainment. But the DVD also has two enjoyable short early films of Director Delphine Gleize on it: "Sale Battars" which received the César for Best Short Film in 2000, and "Un Château en Espagne" which was chosen for the Directors Fortnight.
Sadly, no effort to get a live filmed interview with Gleize...
Rating:  - Insert standard bull joke here.
Carnage (Delphine Gleize, 2002)
The last thing I expected from Carnage was that it would be such an amusing little movie. Gleize's conceit is a now-familiar one-- take one item and show the lives through which it passes-- but instead of taking one item and passing it whole (as in Robert Altman's famous series Gun), Gleize takes a bullfight from the movie's opening scenes, in which the bull himself is killed and the enthusiastic young toreador is horribly gored, winding up comatose and ... Read More
Rating: - The Bull Still Has Powers
Carnage is a film that is set into motion, at the very beginning, when a young bullfighter is gored in the arena. The bullfighter and the bull exchange penetrations in this dance to the death. The bull is killed in the arena by the final sword wound while the young man falls into a coma. The bull is processed, as most bulls are, and his body moves out into the world in pieces.
The story then illustrates how we consume these animals. People come into contact with the bull's various ... Read More
Rating: - Trajectory: The Pulsing Global Balls of Coincidences
CARNAGE is a stunning film - though from the outset it should be made clear that it is not a film for all audiences. For those who cringe at gore, those who are frustrated by nonlinear storyline, and those who feel uncomfortable with magical realism - beware. This is a two-hour plus journey that demands concentration and suspension of belief to glean all of the multilayered meanings it holds.
Stylishly opening with the elegant dressing and preparation of a handsome young bullfighter discussing ... Read More
Rating: - Truth is stranger than fiction...
While this film doesn't aspire to foist a "truth" upon the viewer, it perhaps best understood as an exercise in following a thread, seeing where it leads and how it intertwines with the different chracters presented in the film--interesting, but with inherent limitations. I give four stars for great casting, excellent music and cinematography, and scope of the issues covered. A good first film; hopefully things can only get better.
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